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An article about LSST briefly made it to the front page of reddit, but has now fallen to second-page: link here.

If you use reddit, please, give it a little upvote love. If you don't use reddit... now's a great time to start.

Hooray for the mundane.

I bought computer stuff for the first time in ages recently: a 2-disk external SATA enclosure with RAID 1. I put a pair of 1TB SATA disks in it ( Read more... )

I recorded and uploaded a new electronic track called "receptor sites" to can-ist-er.com and the can.ist.er MySpace page.

It's my first song to include any stolen voice samples, and it's much more sparse than anything I've done before - though (hat tip) it's not nearly as pure and elegantly unnerving as SkincageI used mainly quotes from Timothy ( Read more... )

I just watched High Fidelity. That's been overdue.

Also, Cusack invited Bruce Springsteen to appear in the movie because "Cusack knew Springsteen socially."

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Who calls Bruce Springsteen because they know him socially? N.B: I mostly know Springsteen because of his noteriety, not even because I grew up on him.

From the SWIG user's guide:

"In fact, you can use SWIG to go well beyond 'shooting yourself in the foot' if dangerous programming is your goal."

I'd go a bit further: this is the case sometimes when dangerous programming *isn't* your goal.

This is a techie interview, but it's about writing adware, and it contains this incredible quote:
It was funny. It really showed me the power of gradualism. It’s hard to get people to do something bad all in one big jump, but if you can cut it up into small enough pieces, you can get people to do almost anything.

And yes, he wrote half of it in

Left 4k Dead: Why is it that some lone goof can inevitably be more innovative than the zillion-dollar gaming industry? Here we have a top-down shooter, except with a catch: you can only see what your character can seeThis is an incredibly effective device (try it, you'll see). But the game wasn't invented just because of some great idea - it ( Read more... )

I filled up on gas today.

The trip odometer said I had driven 172 miles, the gas station said I filled 2.3 gallons. I'm dead sure that the tank got all the way full (it was visibly obvious.)

That means that I'm getting about 75 MPG.Whoa. This is actually 20 MPG more than the norm for my bike (according to the Internets.) I guess driving slow ( Read more... )

I rode (motor-style) to this motorcycle boneyard today. (Click for awesome Google's-eye-view).

I definitely need to go back there with money, tools, and lots of spare time.

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